Here's Part I in what I would like to make a periodic update, because I now know that often it's the non baby-book-milestones that are the ones you wish you could remember later, after the sleep deprivation.
Elaine's favorite things (at 5 weeks old):
- Nursing and snuggling with Mommy
- Looking at: the dark border on the quilt above her changing table; sunny windows with the blind closed
- Staring at the person holding her, and occasionally smiling
Elaine is learning to:
- Find someone talking to her who is not holding her
- Take, and keep, a pacifier when she wants one
- Coo
Meredith's favorite things (3 years and 8 mo old):
- Being pushed on the swings and playing in the sandbox with her neighbors before and after dinner
- Pretending to: be a princess; go on a rocket ship vacation; be a family of some certain kind of animal; play doctor
- Going to weekly "music class" with Mommy
- Best friend Maren at preschool: both playing with her and telling us what Maren does and likes
- Conversing about science topics with Daddy
- Listening to and talking about songs on the iPod
Meredith is learning to:
- Add and subtract numbers less than 10, using her fingers
- Get dressed and undressed completely by herself
- Take deep breaths when she's frustrated
- Associate letters and their sounds to start sounding out words
-JRR
